Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-07

| thinks New Haven can be trusted to manage l it's own business so far as selling the Derby railroad is concerned. And it is quite right in so thinking.
 It is intimated that the coolness of the British government in regard to negotiations for the settlement of the fisheries question is due to some extent to feeling that the Americans are more indifferent about that matter than they are about the settlement of the Irish troubles.
 It is estimated that nearly 10000. 1000 of the people of this country own land and many more can own land if they will. Homestead farms have been and still are practically given to all who will enter and work them. But there are many of the inhabitants of this great, glorious and free country who like to sit in city beer saloon and howl for "free land' which nothing could induce them to take and work.
 Proposals have been made to the govern ment of Denmark and Sweden for construct ing a submarine tunnel for railroad under the sound between Copenhagen and Malmo. The tunnel as planned would have total length of between seven and eight miles. The ground to be worked is represented as closely resembling that in the channel be- tween England and France and is said to offer no difficulty to the execution of the work The total cost of construction, it is estimated, will not exceed $6,000,000.
 The bankruptcy law which is pending in the New York legislature is stringent one. Should it be passed it would put stop to ments and put all creditors on an equal foot ing, save that debts to employees not exceed ing certain limit would have to be liquidat- ed before any other payments could be made. The proposed law also gives the Supreme court power, in it's discretion, to remove an assignee and appoint a successor upon the petitition of creditors representing more than half the indebtedness; and there is another provision against fraud in the form of a care fully drawn section making void all eollusive debts or claims.
 A wealthy peasant of the village of Obod- ny, Russia, was recently visited by three venerable looking men dressed in garments of a somewhat clerical fashion, who informed him that they were Christ and the Apostles Peter and Paul. The sham Christ said to him: s'I have given you great wealth, but you have omitted to exercise charity, so have come to reckon with you. Give me your money" The terrified peasant fell on his knees, begged for mercy and gave over five hundred silver roubles, declaring it was all the money he had in the house. They were not satisfied, and he sent off his servant to collect money from neighbors who were indebted to him. Finally some of the neigh bors found out that the men were impostors, and they were driven away.
 It is not surprising to read that the num- Der of suicides in troubled Russia is rapidly increasing. Whereas at the beginning of the century there were only thirty suicides to every million of inhabitants, the propor- tion is now greater in St. Petersburg than in any other European capital. In other great the population at the same period stood as fol- lows: Paris, 206 in the million; London, 16O in the million; Berlin, TO in the million The remarkable increase in Russia dates from the last twenty-five years, and the in- crease is notable in many directions, particu- larly in respect to the age at which self~ murder is now frequently committed. Cases have occurred of late of boys and girls from eight to sixteen years of age taking their own lives, generally on the plea of the cruel be- | hayior of their T1arapfa